By: Dr. Hamid Rasool

Dr. Hamid Rasool — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:04:23 +0000

Prior appropriations laws were established to draw mining and agriculture businesses to the west. These laws were new and unprecedented. The prior appropriation laws legally secured heavy cheap fresh water flows to industry and agriculture in those days of the mid 1800’s. The adverse consequences to the river systems resulting from these prior appropriation laws were less important, in those days, than the need to make available massive amounts of fresh cheap water available so as to encourage the population of the west. This was a divine directive, as you may know, for humans to populate the earth. The west was pretty in those days of the mid 1800’s, but it needed people. prior appropriations water laws was how we got them here. Now that the people are here, prior appropriation rights are to be terminated and are hereby inversely condemned. Prior appropriation rights are obsolete now that the west is populated. The ruin from prior appropriation laws has gone far enough, almost too far. Riparian rights are laws such as for example: ‘Upstream owners of riparian land shall not impede river flows across their land so as to create any adverse downstream effect’. These laws have protected rivers from ruination since ancient days, and termination of prior appropriations laws will automatically reinstate laws of riparian use. No fresh waters can be transferred, sold banked etc. under riparian rights laws unless the area of origin is experiencing a true surplus. Fed AG to promptly and efficiently file and serve direct condemnation for public use actions against owners of any and all historic floodplain and bottom land properties. Condemnation jury findings as to the money to be paid to swamp land owners will be paid using money freed up from stopping payments to IDF and will be paid by money freed up as the need has been reduced for expensive world war preparations as a result of diplomatic actions of USA president and others. All dams and levees are to be condemned and obliterated immediately. Dam and levee condemnation actions are to be filed immediately, before all the fish are dead, and before all fresh water has been ruined or appropriated away, with USA to seek federal court orders as to each dam and levee granting immediate possession to USA to commence with dam and levee obliteration.
Thank you;
Dr. Hamid
Water Lawyer
University of Wyoming College of Law, class of 1972

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